Sheldon Garon

Sheldon Garon is the Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies, professor of history, and professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. He specialized in modern and contemporary Japanese history with interests also in transnational history and the history of ideas between Asia, Europe, and the United States. His prior research has also focused on the relationship between the state and society.

He has been described as "the world's leading historian on household saving." He is the recipient of a number of prestigious of awards for academics, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation grant, and the Abe Fellowship from the government of Japan. which culminated in the global credit crunch.

Books The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987) University of California Press, Berkeley. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997) Princeton University Press. Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends and the World Saves (2011) Princeton University Press.

Articles

“Transnational History and Japan’s ‘Comparative Advantage,’” Journal of Japanese Studies 43, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 65-92. "Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations." The Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 2 (1994): 346-66. doi:10.2307/2059838.